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Winter 2006 • Vol. XXVIII No. 1 • Writing in Code: Literature and the Genome |

Wandering Uterus

By Leslie Adrienne Miller

Leonardo believed that semen came down
from the brain through a channel in the spine.

And that female lactation held its kick off
in the uterus. Not as bad as Hippocrates,

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Leslie Adrienne Miller’s collections of poetry include Y (2012), The Resurrection Trade (2007), and Eat Quite Everything You See (2002) from Graywolf Press, and Yesterday Had a Man in It (1998), Ungodliness (1994), and Staying Up for Love (1990) from Carnegie Mellon University Press.

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Aim

By Leslie Adrienne Miller

The palaeolithic bowman well knew where to find the heart of his victim, and he has portrayed it transfixed with arrows on the walls of his shelter.—Charles Singer’s account of […]

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